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Healthy Chocolate Mug Cake

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Firstly, let me apologise for the photos. I have been working really hard on my food photography over the past few months, and these photos really don’t reflect that. But cake in a mug is really hard to take a photo of. It deflates as soon as you take it out of the microwave and leaves the rest of the mug covered in chocolate, which doesn’t make the best photos. But don’t let that put you off as you could be enjoying amazing healthier chocolate cake in under 3 minutes.

One of the best things about this is that you can make it with things that you most likely already have in your kitchen. I came up with it by just throwing together what I already had, and it turned out really well.

We all get cravings for chocolate cake (come on, don’t tell me it is just me), but if we make or buy a whole one, then there is a lot left over after eating that one slice we were craving, which can lead to over eating. Enter the individual chocolate mug cake. You just make as much as you need, eat it and then it is gone and you don’t have the rest of the cake calling your name from the kitchen.

When I say healthy, I mean healthier. It isn’t made from pure protein and vegetables or anything, there is chocolate in it. But it doesn’t have all the butter and sugar that a regular chocolate cake would have in it. It is also healthier as I am giving you the ingredients to make individual cakes, rather than a whole one.
There is also a little surprise when you dive your spoon in, as by adding a tiny bit of chocolate to the mix, it melts and makes a molten middle. You can leave this out and it will lower the calories (to 170) and it still tastes great, but I like adding this bit for a treat. I always use good quality dark chocolate too.

What I love about this recipe too if that you can add so many different things into the mixture or on top of it when it is cooked that each time you make it you could have a different cake. I will add the variations at the bottom of the recipe.

Okay, enugh of me talking, you want to make some chocolate cake right?

Ingredients – Serves 2:

– 6 tbsp ground oats (put porridge oats in a food processor until a flour consistency. You could use flour instead)

– 1.5 tsp baking powder

– 3 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder

– A pinch of sea salt

– 2 tbsp Greek yoghurt

– 1 tbsp dark vanilla extract (you can use light, but I prefer the flavour of dark)

– 2 tbsp honey (alternatively you could make a date syrup)

– 6 tbsp almond milk (you could use any milk though)

– 2 squares of good quality dark chocolate, cut into small chunks

1) In a bowl, mix together everything but the dark chocolate and make sure everything is combined.

2) Divide half of the mixture between 2 mugs.

3) Divide the chocolate chunks between the 2 mugs and then pour the rest of the cake mixture on top of the chocolate chunks, dividing it between the 2 mugs.

I believe this is what I’ll be making on Valentines Day for my boyfriend and the kids. They just got new “hot chocolate” mugs for christmas..so this will be a fun treat using those thank you for your posts…I’m always visiting your page for inspiration

Can I just ask which kind of dates you use to make date syrup. I have been foolishly using the ones covered in syrup. I had no idea how much crap they had in them until I looked. OOps. I bought some without the goo on now so thinking- a bit of water and a food processer yeah?

I am so happy to see this recipe. I remember when you mentioned it a few weeks ago and I have been checking your blog every day since waiting for it to go up. You could say I kind of like chocolate cake lol.

Sounds really good. I would also love to see a healthy recipe for sticky toffee pudding. I may be asking too much though, as I know you use dates in replace of sugar, and it already has a lot of dates in it. Just thought I would suggest it though

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Welcome to Hungry Healthy Happy!
I'm Dannii and in 2008 I decided that it was time to get healthy and that meant eating better and moving more. As well as improving my health, I lost 98lbs and here on the blog I share the recipes, healthy living tips and exercises that helped me do that and how I maintain my health and happiness.